I chose Paths of Glory, a superbly acted WWI piece, followed by Barry Lyndon. Full Metal Jacket has to be one of the most frustrating movies of all time. The first part (in boot camp) is one of the most intense and ultimately tragic and horrific sequences in film. Then, all of a sudden, the movie goes straight to hell, lacking focus and any of the intensity of the first half. It's almost like two films, one oscar-worthy and one tedious b-movie were grafted together.

And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision.

Argh, so many good films here... for me it's Full Metal Jacket, followed by 2001, Dr. Strangelove, and Clockwork Orange.

Why do people think the ending to 2001 is so mysterious? I thought it was pretty clear what happened. The monolith on the moon was a tool (probably designed by some super-advanced alien species is my guess) to help speed up human evolution. That's why the apes who found the similar one on Earth figured out how to use tools all of a sudden. When Bowman gets sucked into that one on the moon, it does the same to him, and he's reborn as a hyper-evolved life form higher than humans, e.g. that fetus floating in space.

I don't think Barry is boring, probably right words will be "slow moving"... it is one of the few movies that makes you feel like you have lived the whole life with the main character, and all that in 3 hours.

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